Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be dumb.
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
